New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-13

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bees uproarious buzzing that other people shall
not hear it.
The Republican party of this State has done
o good deal Of late in the direction of reform In
political methods. The convention which meets
at Saratoga tomorrow will contain SOB dele
gates The enlargement Of the State Conyen-
ton was due TO the popular demand for increased
representation Such a demand has been made
TO the Democratic leaders, but nothing has come
of it, A remorseless machine rules the Democ-
racy Of New-York, and the machine finds that
it runs easiest when the convention is as small
ms may be. Democrats are fond of claiming
that theirs is the party of the people. 1t Is
q false pretcnce, and one Of many ways OF dem
onstrating that it is nothing more is to con-
trast the size of the conventions of the two or
CARNATIONS.
Mr. Garland says he is enjoying his holiday at
Homny Hill very much. Why doesn't he make
it permanent?
"Ihe Albany Tines appears to be highly graft
fed because nobody at the Montgomery County
fair asked Governor Hill to explain his veto Of
the Vcdder bill. The Montgomery County far
mers arc uncommonly level headed and doubtless
concluded that it would be waste Of time to
invite the Governor to defend the indefensible.
Much OF the comment that has been made upon
the recent transactions which are TO result in
Mr. Robert CARROTS retirement from the manage
ment OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
rany have been both unnecessary and unjust.
When Mr.. Garrett, in obedience to circumstances
beyond his control rather than from his own
tastes and ambitions. assumed the presidency
OF this great system, he found himself in a sit
uation OF peculiar difficulty. He had inherited
q hopeless scheme and a combination of power
full cnmitics. IL was q scheme he could not
abandon without doing violence TO his fathers
memory. The alternative OF rclinqushing the
plan Of extension and thereby exciting the ami
mostly OF all his fathers frien.ls and support
ers or of continuing the fight against his ia
theirs old foes. was one which might have APP
pallcd the best OF railroad nanclcrs. lie probably
made wise choice, and having made it.
tainly did NIL that IL was possible TO do. In
fact, it is not too much TO say that he did bet
ter than the elder Garrett could have done, for
the opposition which confronted the more popu-
lar son was mild compared with that arrayed
against his father, whose signal ability could
not long have borne up against It, Mr.. Garrett
is known 10 be not unwilling to eave the cares
and burdens Of railroad strife. lie possesses n
large independent fortune and is to be congrat-
ulatcd on having the opportunity to cultivate
more congenial tastes and pursuits. which there
may be no harm in suggesting can be gratifcd
nowhere more agrecably than in New York Mr.
Garrett would make an cxcclcnt citizen, and
when the Baltimore load Is fairly of his should
ers we shall be glad 10 give him n hearty well
como to the metropolis.
II is pity, by the way, that "1hc Worlds
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tary 10 the President failed to refer to Higgins
Mrs. Cleveland will be present in Philadel-
phia at the celebration OF the framing Of tho
CnnsIitnli In this tho inscrtinn Of tho